Is TAB actually worse than a third grade science project?
So TAB released a "survey", which most citizens didn't participate in because they knew the outcome was already pre-ordained, and then when the results came back opposite of what TAB hoped, because TAB definitely didn't want the "do nothing" option, TAB lumped various options together to provide more votes than the "do nothing" option. It would be like if, during the last election, the Republicans went with one candidate, Trump, while the Democrats were allowed two, Bernie and Hillary, with the option to combine the votes received by the two if both lost to Trump individually, and then pick either Bernie or Hillary if their combined vote totals topped Trump.
I'm not sure if it is worth any additional breath to say, yet again, how stupid TAB is, but let's point out that, once a survey with multiple "change" options which is not ranked choice yields a result in which one of these change options emerges as the favorite, but receives less votes than "do nothing", you either accept the results and "do nothing", or YOU DO ANOTHER SURVEY with just that change option and the "do nothing" option as the lone choices in a "mano a mano" competition. Because you have no idea if the group who voted for "change #1" option, which wasn't selected, will roll over and subsequently vote for the "change #2" option if the "change #1" option is no longer on the table, or not. They might decide "change #2" is better than "do nothing", compared to their original preference for "change #1", or they might not, but to assume they will without asking is the height of insolence, duplicity, and sophism. They might choose not to participate in the follow-up survey at all (vote with their feet), or, since the option they liked best was defeated, they might decide to vote for "no change" instead of a different change they didn't want. We know for certain people who voted for the "change #1" option didn't like it more than "change #2", because if they did, THEY WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. If this was a third-grade science project, the crap experiments, like if electricity can kill a cat, or whether sugar-water dissolves a penny faster than a nickel, would be given green participation ribbons. In Estes Park, though, we award $50,000 to our friends with bad ideas or sexy ideas or trendy ideas but no ideas of how surveys actually work. And once we've spent $50,000 or barriers to block the streets, well then, how can we turn back? How can we ever get back to what the public voted for overwhelmingly when given a choice, which was "no change"?
I'm not sure if it is worth any additional breath to say, yet again, how stupid TAB is, but let's point out that, once a survey with multiple "change" options which is not ranked choice yields a result in which one of these change options emerges as the favorite, but receives less votes than "do nothing", you either accept the results and "do nothing", or YOU DO ANOTHER SURVEY with just that change option and the "do nothing" option as the lone choices in a "mano a mano" competition. Because you have no idea if the group who voted for "change #1" option, which wasn't selected, will roll over and subsequently vote for the "change #2" option if the "change #1" option is no longer on the table, or not. They might decide "change #2" is better than "do nothing", compared to their original preference for "change #1", or they might not, but to assume they will without asking is the height of insolence, duplicity, and sophism. They might choose not to participate in the follow-up survey at all (vote with their feet), or, since the option they liked best was defeated, they might decide to vote for "no change" instead of a different change they didn't want. We know for certain people who voted for the "change #1" option didn't like it more than "change #2", because if they did, THEY WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. If this was a third-grade science project, the crap experiments, like if electricity can kill a cat, or whether sugar-water dissolves a penny faster than a nickel, would be given green participation ribbons. In Estes Park, though, we award $50,000 to our friends with bad ideas or sexy ideas or trendy ideas but no ideas of how surveys actually work. And once we've spent $50,000 or barriers to block the streets, well then, how can we turn back? How can we ever get back to what the public voted for overwhelmingly when given a choice, which was "no change"?
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